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Location : Haridwar, Dehradun, Pauri (Uttaranchal).
Covered Area : 820 sq. kms.
Main Attractions : Elephant
Best Time To Visit : Mid-November
To Mid-June.
Accommodation
:
Arrival
Information :
-- By
Rail : Nearest
railway station is Dehradun, Haridwar.
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By Air : Jolly
Grant Airport, which is only a few kilometers away from the Northern Boundary of
the Park has a daily flight from Delhi.
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By Road : It is very
well connected by road from Saharanpur, which in turn is very well connected by
rail to Delhi, Lucknow, Amritsar,
Jammu Tawi and Calcutta.
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Nearby Excursions : Rishikesh,
Haridwar.
-- Nearby Cities : Dehradun
 The Rajaji National Park
is rich in faunal wealth because of the varied types of ecological niches
existing in the reserve. The main groups occur are birds, mammals
& reptiles snakes and lizards, amphibians (frogs & toads)
and fishes, and chiefly the invertebrate groups are, the scorpions,
centipedes, Odonata (dragon & damselflies), hymenoptera (wasps,
bees, etc.) Isoptera (termites) and lepidoptera which comprises more than 60
species. Our National bird Peacock
is found here in abundance.
 The smaller carnivores as copredators are leopard cat, jungle cat , civet
cat and yellow throated martin. Besides, other mammals like hyaena, jackal and
bengal fox are not an uncommon sight and work as scavangers in the park.
all 49 mammals species are belonging to 42 genera, in 21 families and
nine orders have been recorded. According to census done in 1999 there are 445
elephants, 32 tigers and 177 leopards, besides thousands of other wild animals
in the park.
315 birds species
are reported to occur in the park. Birds like ducks, teals, cormorants, egrets,
lapwing, pond herons, pea fowl, jungle fowl, various species of partridges and
pheasants, drongo, crows, owlets and nightjars, birds of prey, etc, are quite
common.
Twenty eight species of snakes, 12
species of turtles & tortoises and 9 species of lizards among
Reptilia are being recorded from the park.
Ten species under six genera and four
families belonging to order Anura (toads & frogs) with their developmental
stages have been recorded from the park. Uperodon systoma, Polypedates
maculatus and Rana crassa are recorded for the first time from the
park. Besides, an interesting phenomenon of breeding of Bufonids was observed,
which showed that B. stomaticus & B.melanostictus breeds during
July-August on the northern slope of Siwalik ,whereas the same species breeds up
to November on the southern slope. Polypedates maculatus, which inhabits
the live tree-holes, breeds only in July. |
